Just moments ago Jacksonville police addressed the growing concern over the recent surge in shootings around the city. According to our records here at Channel 4, there have been 16 SHOOTINGS since April the 14th. two of them involving police officers. Channel 4's Tarik Minor has just come from a briefing at the sheriff's office .. he has also spoken with the president of MAD DADS and a woman who witnessed one of the shootings. He is joining us LIVE from downtown.Tarik. 3 3 00-0625-3351-59137-142PKG - SOT 02:28:35"Pow pow pow, pow pow pow pow."This woman who only wants to be identified as Elise, says she covered her two year old child, while approximately 30 shots were fired in Northwest Jax on Barnett Road. It marks the 16th shooting since April 14th in Jacksonville according to our records.They're shootings that have claimed the lives of 5 people so far this spring. 02:29:20"the generation we've got now, they got some hate in their heart, they don't have any money, they don't have an education and that's what you get.'Witnesses who described Tuesdays shooting describe it as an ambush, leaving man dead and another woman injured. But like most of the cases, the witnesses aren't reporting what they saw to police, leaving the gunmen still capable of committing more crimes.02:32:30"the community is becoming so insensitive to what's going on, and we're just letting it control us, instead of us standing up and fighting back."MAD DAD president Donald Foy says the violence is out of control, and he worries that the summer months may even worse.. He says the key is breaking the code of silence, something those in the community, are hesitant to do. Foy says he recognizes that Jacksonville Sheriff's officers are doing everything they possibly can to bring the gunmen to justice with the resources they have, but without the willingness of witnesses to report what they saw by calling crimestoppers, Foy says neighborhoods are fighting a losing battle. 02:35:15"we're putting ourselves in jeopardy with this, because the shootings are happening on the corner, and could hit anybody, the bullets could fly and hit one of your family members, but then what."Foy says he believe the increase in violence is gang and turf related. Jacksonville Sheriff's officers have yet to confirm those claims.TMTLS 3

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